Bayat Foundation Provides Long-Term Support to Afghan Learning

CenterBy Afghan Wireless

The Bayat Foundation has been a longtime supporter of the Ayenda Learning Center.

Bayat Foundation

The foundation has helped to fund everything from a new generator for the center’s computer lab to a training program for female high school and university students.

Bayat Foundation

Founded in 2009, the Ayenda Learning Center provides education and vocational training to 200 orphans who previously did not have access to an education.

Bayat Foundation

The center is located in Bamiyan, a historic and picturesque, yet impoverished Afghan province.

Ayenda Learning Center

Ehsan Bayat, an engineer and founder of the Bayat Foundation, oversaw the construction of the two-story building for free.

Ayenda Learning Center

The project was financed through private donations from American businesses and individuals.

Ayenda Learning Center

Shamim Jawad, the founder of the Ayenda Foundation, said on the opening day of the school that it would bring much-needed care and attention to the children of Bamiyan, which was once a center of science and spirituality in Afghanistan.

Ayenda Learning Center

He added that he hoped the future would encourage “peace, prosperity, and further opportunities for education” to the children of Bamiyan, as well as Afghanistan as a whole.

Ayenda Learning Center